Automated evaluation of Her-2/neu status in breast tissue from fluorescent in situ hybridization images

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1288-1299

  Raimondo, Francesco ^a   Gavrielides, Marios A ^a   Karayannopoulou, Georgia ^a   Lyroudia, Kleoniki ^b   Pitas, Ioannis ^a   Kostopoulos, Ioannis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Breast carcinomas; Case classification; Fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH); Nuclei segmentation; Spot detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CELLS; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TISSUE;

BREAST CARCINOMAS; CASE CLASSIFICATION; FLUORESCENT IN SITU HYDRIBIDIZATION (FISH); NUCLEI SEGMENTATION; SPOT DETECTION;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; TUMOR MARKER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BREAST TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RECEPTOR, ERBB-2; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 26444506227     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.852806     Document Type: Article

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